Mishawaka Four Horsemen Ale

Brewed by Mishawaka Brewing Company
Style: Irish Ale
Mishawaka, Indiana USA

Thanks to hopdog. Pours a lightly hazy orange amber with a smaller off white bubbly head that left some lacing. Aroma of fruity, sweet malts, some caramel and toffee. Flavor had some metalic, some funky sourness, hints of hop bitterness and fruity.

Dark amber with tan head. Malty aroma — caramel — along with notes of wet blanket and canned corn. Floral hops can also be detected in the nose. The flavor starts sweet and ends bitter and slightly vinegary. Watery texture. Medium body. The bitter finish sticks around for awhile. Soft carbonation. The appearance was the best thing about this.

For a brewery I’ve been fairly happy with on other occasions, this just plain out sucked. Pours bronze with a soapy rocky head. The aroma has chalk, butter and cola - YUCK!! Medium body with light carbonation. Flavors start astringent, tinny and sour with some stale caramel. The finish is a sour form of chalk. This is wretched. I don’t know the age - I wish more breweries would date their product so you knew what you were getting. However, with my experience here I can’t even imagine this being good fresh.

This beer is nice to behold, pouring a deep mahogany with a dense tan head, though it diminishes a bit quickly. The nose is big on this beer with sweet malt, particularly chocolate and light caramel malts, however there’s also some liberal hopping giving some grapefruit to floral notes. The palate is really very nice, good viscosity, and nice and frothy on the palate, without being too much for the style. The flavor is rather nice at first, but then something goes awry. Sweet caramel to chocolate malt is overcome with bitter floral hops, which is fine, but then alcohol and a burnt malt flavor start to penetrate. The burnt elements work their way into the finish and the aftertaste overwhelming the sweet malt and the floral grapfruit hops (which stick around, but are hard to detect). There is a bit of smoke, which I found more as the beer warmed, and I liked this element. Less roast on the malt would really make this a fine beer, truly a rotten shame, especially given how much I’ve liked their other beer I’ve tried, Hophead.

A nice deep red color with a medium sized tan head. The aroma is not super strong, but whats there is nice. It smells very malty, chocolate, some caramel, and some woody scents. The strong hops come out in the flavor, but the malt is still there, a good deal of bitterness and maybe some spice. It is well balanced but there is also a lot going on.

Goes great with sourthwestern rice recipe!!! Grainey texture and cloudy on sight. No nose to speak of. Became more roasty after warming, better to cook with than to drink too many of, bitter finish, thin and tastless on the tongue.

Pour is clear amber with a thin tan head...weak generic malty grainy aroma...sweet and grainy up front, with some strange sort of sourness too...

Very thin pale ale with funky aroma. It hits with a sweet edge, moderately sour, and a bitter note of metallic quality. Orange/red color.